TELEGRAM TO THE OREL GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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12. IV. 1919

GuberniaExecutive CommitteeOrelCopy to Uyezd Executive CommitteeMaloarkhangelsk

WriterIvan Volny has been arrested. His friend Gorky
earnestly requests the greatest caution and impartiality inthe investigation. Can he be set free under strict
surveillance? Wire.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Leninwrote this telegram in connection with the receipt by him
on April 12, 1919, of a telegram from Maxim Gorky reporting the
arrest of the writer Ivan Volny in Maloarkhangelsk and asking
for “an impartial investigation of the reasons for the arrest and
his liberation under surveillance”. “I have no doubt of his
political loyalty,” wrote Gorky.

Seealso this volume, documents 297 and 452.